Mental Health Declaration and Power of Attorney

A Mental Health Declaration and Power of Attorney helps you document your health care preferences and allows you to grant someone the authority to make mental health care decisions on your behalf should you ever be unable to make them yourself. Maybe you're playing it safe and want to be prepared if something happens, or maybe you're helping someone else with difficult decisions. A Mental Health Declaration and Power of Attorney gets your wishes in writing.

Use the Mental Health Declaration and Power of Attorney document if:

• You want to make sure your future mental health wishes are granted.
• You want to designate someone to make decisions for your mental health care if you are unable to do so yourself.
• You anticipate treatment in a mental health facility.
• Your have been diagnosed with a condition that may lead the inability to make mental health care decisions for yourself.